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Ports, Border Force, driving tests and licences to be hit by strikes

The Public and Commercial Services union said action will start in mid-December and continue for a month.

The Independent UK

Border Force trainees ‘stripped of free accommodation for asylum course’

People told to make daily round-trips of up to three hours and that not turning up on time may result in failure, union says

The Guardian - UK

Figures set to show 40,000 migrant crossings into UK this year

Border Force officials could be seen bringing groups of people into shore at Dover, Kent, on Saturday.

The Independent UK

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Minister declares ‘Hotel Britain’ must end to deter ‘asylum shopping’

Robert Jenrick has insisted a move towards more basic accommodation is necessary to remove a ‘pull factor’ for those coming to the UK ‘illegally’.

The Independent UK

Migrant crossings believed to have surpassed 40,000 this year after new arrivals

Border Force officials could be seen bringing groups of people into shore at Dover, Kent, over Saturday.

The Independent UK

Channel crossings to the UK inching closer to 40,000 this year amid new arrivals

Groups of people were pictured at Border Force facilities in Dover, Kent, on Saturday morning.

The Independent UK

Army to begin training to cover striking Border Force staff

Exclusive: request to train more than 500 personnel raises tensions between Home Office and MoD

The Guardian - UK

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Military to cover for striking Border Force staff in 'desperate' Suella Braverman plan

Hundreds of Armed Forces personnel look set to be drafted into ports and airports after 100,000 civil servants voted to strike over pay and pensions - including in Border Force

Daily Mirror

Heathrow says ‘Christmas flight cap’ won’t be needed – but warns of strike threat

Main UK hub says increase in passenger numbers this year is higher than at any other airport in Europe

The Independent UK

Military set to fill in for Border Force guards during winter strikes OLD

Union bosses warn of ‘extraordinary disruption’ at airports and key ports like Dover

The Independent UK

‘They’re risking their lives to come here. There must be a reason’: how Dover really feels about migrants

The home secretary talks of ‘invasion’. Council leaders say Kent is ‘at breaking point’. But what’s the mood on the street in the town at the heart of the small boat crossings?

The Guardian - UK

Channel crossings deal could see Border Force officers in French control rooms

The Government said the fresh agreement between the UK and France is in its final stages.

The Independent UK

Border Force union joins legal action over conditions at Manston asylum centre

Exclusive: PCS joins action with charity and a woman placed at Kent processing centre for boat arrivals

The Guardian - UK

Dover firebombing attack ‘motivated by terrorist ideology’ - OLD

Police said there is no evidence Andrew Leak was working with anyone else or there is any wider threat to the public.

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

Embattled Suella Braverman takes Chinook to visit migrant facilities in bid to grip crisis

Suella Braverman was touring several sites in Kent on Thursday

The Independent UK

Embattled Home Secretary visits migrant facilities in bid to grip crisis

Suella Braverman was touring several sites in Kent on Thursday.

Daily Mirror

Woman collapses in Heathrow chaos after ALL passport e-gates go down causing huge queues

The scanners, operated by Border Force officials, briefly went down in Terminal 3 at the UK's largest airport this morning, leaving hundreds of passengers waiting in lengthy queues as they came off overnight flights

The National (Scotland)

Hundreds moved from immigration centre amid overcrowding concerns

HUNDREDS have been moved out of an immigration centre in Kent following concerns it had become dangerously overcrowded.

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The Guardian - UK

Albania criticises UK’s lack of cooperation over Channel crossings

Government sources in Tirana say UK has failed to provide information or agree a deportation deal

Wales Online

'Several hundred' people moved from migrant processing centre amid fears of dangerous overcrowding

Site designed to hold up to 1,600 people for no more than 24 hours was holding 4,000 people

The Independent UK

Hundreds of migrants moved from Manston processing centre amid overcrowding

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said the number of migrants at the site had ‘fallen substantially’ on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Overcrowding has made Manston centre a ‘pot that’s boiling over’, workers say

‘Why has it taken firebombs to be thrown for anyone to take notice?’, union rep said

Reuters

UK counter-terrorism police lead investigation into Dover bomb incident

Britain's counter-terrorism police are now leading the investigation into an incident in which petrol bombs were thrown at an immigration centre in the southern English port of Dover, police said on Tuesday.

Daily Mirror

Manston detention centre: Children 'crawl through fence' and chant 'we need your help'

People at the Manston site in Kent said conditions were "not nice" and that some of them were getting sick, but no doctors or lawyers were on hand to help, reported a support group

Manchester Evening News

Firebomb attack on Dover migrant centre not being treated as terrorist incident

Devices were thrown at the Border Force migrant centre in the Kent port town at around 11.20am on Sunday

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